Record-book.



B. W. MULKEY.

RECORD BOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED Nov. 1e, 1909.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

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lllhlflfll PATENT @lhllfliQE BEN W, MULKEY, GF VALE, GREG'DN.

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To all w/Lom it may concern:

Be it known that it, BEN W. Mummy, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at Vale, in the county of Malheur and State of Oregon, haveinvented certain new and useful lmprovements in Record-Books, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention is a record book, that is, it is a book for preservingrecords of all kinds, public or private, and consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of its parts.

ln the accompanying drawings: liigure 1 is a view 0f the book lyingopen, the upper left-hand corner of the first leaf turned down and thelower right-hand corner of the second and third leaves turned up. Fig.2, is a cross sectional view of the book on its back, the front edge cutaway. Fig. 3, is a detail view of the plaited reinforced strip forholding the groups of leaves or signatures with other parts of thebinding of the book.

My invention is described as follows: The numeral 1 represents the sideboards of the cover of the boek. 2, t-he back cover which comes up somelittle distance on the side boards 1. 3, represents the marble paperthat continues from the back cover and overlaps the front edges of theboards. 4, represents the plaited strip, to the inner bowed edges 5, ofwhich, is secured, te each, the folded edges of a group of leaves 11;this group of leaves may be secured by stitches 11l or otherwise; thestraight parts of said strips 6, are reinforced by filling strips 7,these strips are made of paste-board, or other stiff material, and areglued or otherwise secured to said straight parts; they perform thefunction of stiifening said straight parts and, at the same time, asfillers; the lower bowed portions of said strip 4t, are firmly securedto the inner back cover 8, and between the inner back cover 8, and theouter back cover 2, is a stiifening strip 9; the extreme ends of thesaid plaited strip 4, extend upward en the inside of the said boards 1,forming at the outer edges of said boards, hinges 10. The leaves 11, aremade of transparent paper, through which any writing, drawing or othermarks may be easily read. The first and second pages of the first leafis blank while the first page of second leaf is provided at its outeredge and at its upper and lower edges with a :narrow strip of glue 12,or other adhesive matter, while its inner part near its fold is providedalso with a narrow strip of glue 13, or other adhesive mat- Specicationof Letters Patent.

Application filed November 1S, 1969.

Patented Sept. 2?, 19M).

Serial No. 528,378.

ter, leaving a space 131 between the inner fold of said strip 13, andthe folded part at the stitches 111, of said sheet; page 9., of saidleaf 1 is blank; all the subsequent pairs of leaves are arranged andprovided with adhesive matter eXactly like the leaves 1 and 2; forinstance, the first page of leaf 3 is blank, that is, it is not providedwith adhesive matter while the first page of leaf 4t, is provided withadhesive matter, same as the first page oflcaf 2 and so on throughoutthe book.

in practice, the record, to be preserved, is placed on the face of page3, being careful that its edges do not come in contact with the adhesivemattei', then `he adhesive matter is dampened and the first leaf turnedover on to the first page of the second leaf and sealed down.

lt will be observed by reference to Fig. :2, that the book when empty iswider at its back than at its front side, but when the records areslipped in between the leaves, the book is swelled out until the frontedge is as thick as the back edge and the stiifcning strips and fillers7, are put 'in to lill up the rear hinge or spur part of the book; thespace left between the inner strip 13, of adhesive matter and its foldedpart is for the purpose of letting the pair of leaves of that particularpart be thin, thus forming a pliable hinge, so that the leaves will lieout. flat and the records may be easily read, where the writing ordrawing' is on both sides of a sheet of paper, the front side may beread first and leaf turned over and then the back side read. lf there bemore than one sheet of record the second sheet is placed between thenext pair of leaves and so on. lt will be seen by this arrangement, thatthe records are kept from being defaccd by usage and in being protectedfrom dust and handling and the records are also kept from being tamperedwith.

lt is immaterial whether the adhesive matter be put on the third sheetof the pair of leaves or the second sheet. lt is suflicient if it be puton either page.

Having described my invention what l claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is;

1. A book for the reception and preservation of records, comprising aback and covers, transparent leaves secured at their inner edges to theback and arranged in pairs, one leaf of each pair of leaves having onits face a line of adhesive material adj aeent its edges whereby theleaves of each 'pair niay be secured together to forni inclosed pockets,substantially as described.

2. Abook for the recept-ion and preservation of records, comprising aback and Covers, transparent leaves secured at their inner edges to theback and arranged in pairs, one leaf of each pair of leaves having onits face a line or" adhesive material adjacent its edges, the line oi'adhesive material adjacent the inner edge being slightly spacedtherefrom to provide a hinge section', whereby the leaves of each pairinay be secured together to forni inclosed pockets, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I aix iny signature, in presence of two witnesses.

BEN w. MULKEYQ lWitnesses J. R. VVEAwR, W. J. DoUGLAss.

